22.11.2010: Once Upon A Nightwish - Finally in German language (NIGHTWISH)

We had almost given up believing in receiving the elaborately and preciously produced German (for the first time!!!) translation of the official NIGHTWISH biography "Once Upon A Nightwish" right within this year, but now we are proud to tell you, that you now have the chance to get one of these limited books for your NIGHTWISH collection right in time before X-mas.

This limited edition is refined by the cult DVD "From Wishes To Eternity", which has received a Gold Award in 2003, meanwhile doubled its sales and so earning Platin now as well. This integrated Platin Award which can be personalised, meaning you can present one to yourself, but also to someone else - especially at Christmas.

On November 26th, 2010 you can finally have a look into the official NIGHTWISH biography "Once Upon A Nightwish" translated into German language for the first time, including the Platin awarded DVD "From Wishes To Eternity"... (>>> click to enlarge)

After their great success with their debut album "Dreams In Formaline" and a lot of live shows (e.g. tour with Subway To Sally) OMEGA LITHIUM are now very busy with the successor album. So right now they are in the Horus Sound Studio (Hannover/GER) together with Slowenia's most successful producer Zarko Pak (e.g. Siddharta). You may exüect the results for Spring 2011...

Here and of course as usual in the multimedia-area you will now find a little fortaste of things to come on December 10th, 2010, because this is the releasedate of the new MOTORJESUS album "Wheels Of Purgatory".

With their second album "Origin Of The Storm" THE SORROW entered the Austrian Album Charts on position #25. Now with their third and seftitled album "The Sorrow" the Amadeus Award winner mdade it up to position #24.

THE DOGMA have realised the story behind the track "Dirty Dark Diane", taken from their upcoming album "Black Widow", visually as well. Here and as usual in the multimedia-area you can now find the clip, the album in one month on December 03rd, 2010.

During a very special event XANDRIA want to present their new vocalist. As main act of the show "Classic meets Pop" in their hometown Bielefeld XANDRIA will perform one of their songs together with the Bielefelder Philharmoniker to represent the metal genre.

Today THE SORROW celebrate their third album, to be released tomorrow, at their homebase Dornbirn, of course including a liveshow... and from tomorrow on they rock you across the republic... (>>> dates)

And if you need further arguments for buying the album and/or visit a concert - here are a few quotes from the press in advance:

SLAM: THE SORROW befinden sich mit ihrem dritten Longplayer am Höhepunkt ihres Schaffens!(~With their third album THE SORROW are at the climax of their work!)9/10

ROCK HARD: Mit den mehrschichtig arrangierten Songs und unzähligen Killer-Refrains ist die Band auf den Spuren der ganz Großen ihres Genres.(~With these multilayered arranged songs and these countless killer-chorus the band is following the traces of the biggest in their genre.)8/10

STORMBRINGER.at: THE SORROW haben mit ihrem gleichnamigen Album ein Kunststück vollbracht und den modernen Metal mit diesem Werk geprägt!(~THE SORROW have accomplished a feat with their selftitled album and impressed the modern metal with this work!)4,5/5

LEGACY: MetalCore-Fans werden aber nach allen Regeln der Kunst bedient(~But metalcore fans will be served by every trick in the book)11/15

THE-PIT.de: The Sorrow beweisen wieder einmal, dass sie zu dem Besten in Europa gehören, was die Metalcore-Szene zu bieten hat.(~Once more The Sorrow prove, that they belong to the best in Europe the metalcore scene has to offer.)9/10

Here is right in time for the tour - the smasher "The Architects Of My Apocalypse" was captured in moving pictures, with a lot of sweat and blood (here or in the multimedia-area). Check out this last single from the "Phoenix"-era, before the EMIL BULLS will get into the studio in December to produce the next album.

Not only a video-release but also a big time on the road again... Come around, the dates so far have been from almost to complete sold out - so let this continue... (>>> dates)

From tomorrow on until November 07th, 2010 the track "Crossing Jordan" from the upcoming album "The Sorrow" (to be released this Friday) will be available for download at Amazon.de - FOR FREE... so follow the link and check out a previously unreleased track from THE SORROW...

Our latest signing MOTORJESUS is already around in the clubs before the release of their upcoming album "Wheels Of Purgatory" on December 10th, 2010 - perhaps they give you a foretaste of things to come... (>>> dates)

VICTOR SMOLSKI has a lot of workshop-dates on his schedule during the next months... (>>> Dates)

Beside that last Friday Victor and RAGE have been again at the TV TOTAL Stock Car Crash Challenge in the Schalke-Arena (Gelsenkirchen, D) to give Stefan Raab the right sound for his entry. Here (from minute 02:41) you can view and hear how "Drop Dead" from the last RAGE album "Carved In Stone" was presented...

On October 29tt, 2010 the new selftitled album by THE SORROW will be released, but right now and here or in the multimedia-area you will find the cineastic interpretation for the new track "Crossing Jordan"...

In about 8 weeks the new album "Black Widow" by THE DOGMA will be released, followed of course by a lot of live shows. So the monsterrockers LORDI have again invited our five guys from Ancona to support them during their "Babez For Breakfast" tour... (>>> dates)

By the way: Awa, LORDI's Queen of Insanity, was co-writer of three of the new THE DOGMA tracks...

In about 4 weeks the new and selftitled album by THE SORROW will be available in stores, and of course they will celebrate the new stuff with you during several live-shows. And now the gigs in their homeland are finally confirmed - in January 2011 the metalheads in Austria can enjoy the new stuff live as well... (>>> dates)

THE DOGMA have not been wasting time during the last three years. On the contrary, they have been quite busy and you will hear the results in the shape of their third album "Black Widow" on December 03rd, 2010...

One and a half year after the release of their "My Inner Demon" and many shows, among others with LORDI, SILVERLANE are back with their new album "Above The Others". The second album will be available in stores on November 26th, 2010 and of course we will present more details here soon...

ENSIFERUM will be quite busy to travel to so many clubs in the world. Among others they will play in Israel this November, in January 2011 they are together with 39 other metal bands on a cruise liner, and aftert that they will play across the north american continent for 5 weeks... (>>> dates)

On October 01st, 2010 the new album "Heilig" (Dragnet/Columbia) will be available in stores, but right now and here or in the multimedia-area of LETZTE INSTANZ you will find a trailer with new sounds...

The new album "Lügenkabinett" is finished and will be available in stores as regular version and as limited digipack. AKREA have recorded two bonustracks for the limited edition: a new version of "Ahnenrausch" and an interpretation of Apocalyptica's "Distraktion".!

On October 23rd, 2010 AKREA will credit this special event again with an exclusive show at the Blue Oyster Bar in Waldsassen, including a real party for they also have to celebrate the band's fifth anniversary...

Until then there are a few festivals in Germany, Austria and Switzerland to cope with the long time waiting...

JESUS ON EXTASY will headline the anual Spektakulum at Stennert in Herne (D) on August 28th, 2010 and take this chance to celebrate the release of their new album "No Gods" with you... and as usual the Spektakulum is "outside and for free... (>>> dates)

Unbelievable, but in 2010 the foundation of SILVERLANE will have its 15th anniversary! Reason enough to return to the point of origin and play a gig in Forchheim on November 06th, 2010 and to celebrate. And inbetween they will play a show with RAGE... (>>> dates)

If you have enjoyed one of this years QNTAL shows, you might have recognized the other lady on stage next to Syrah. So now it is official: the QNTAL live crew is supplemented by a new member some of you should already know.

In future the violinist Mariko (among others Unto Ashes, VocaMe, Estampie) will enrich the multiplicity of QNTAL's instruments with her violin and backup Syrah's vocals with her backing vocals.

Tomorrow the recordings for the new AKREA album will begin! As before with "Lebenslinie" our Bavarians will record the new stuff with Victor Bullok alias "V. Santura" at the Woodshed Studios. Within the next weeks 11 brand new tracks will be banned on data carrier.

So look forward to the new material and new feeds on AKREA's YouTube Channel fresh from the studio... and then it may work out with the release in Autumn...

01.06.2010: Drakkar Entertainment meets Cargo Records

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In digital times there are still a few vinyl lovers alive. For those we started a cooperation with Cargo Records. Within the next time there will be one Drakkar release at Cargo Records on vinyl by the other. It starts by the end of this month with the classics "Get Heavy" by LORDI and TWISTED SISTER's "Still Hungry" even on double vinyl.

13 brand new tracks in hand THE SORROW together with their producer Toni Meloni entered the Principal Studios (Senden/GER). After only 4 weeks the recordings for their third album are almost finisched.

The calmness and the absolute isolation of the the studios have served our metalheads from Austria obviously well. After the constant evolution from their debut "Blessings From A Blackened Sky" (2007) to "Origin Of The Storm" (2009) the - selftitled - third work of Andi, Dominik, Mätze and Tobi promises to become another musically milestone for the band.

"We ourselves are overwhelmed", says gitarist Andi Mäser. "The songs have become epic beyond belief. The album is more progressive than the first two releases. A lot of people will be surprised. 100% THE SORROW, but in a way one never has heard us before." With "Heart Of A Lion" the band has a real metal track with a brute groove on hand, but further titles will not be revealed right now.

The third album by THE SORROW will be in stores probably in late Autumn 2010.

At this point we just want to remind you of the constantly updated THE SORROW video podcast at iTunes, including among others a complete concert recorded in their homebase, Dornbin's T.E.C. Hohenems, last December.

The Digital Dandies around singer Dorian Deveraux are in the studio right now to show the scene what Goth Rock has to sound like in 2010.

The new album, entitled "No Gods", is produced by the guys themselves and will be responsible for a few surprises. It presents the brothers Deveraux, Ophelia Dax, BJ and their latest update Dino in their best form ever. Line up changes and touring, e.g. with Eisbrecher, have let them grown together.

The new album "No Gods" by JESUS ON EXTASY will bound you to your stereos on August 27th, 2010...

Not only another festival was added to the tour schedule, but also the LETZTE INSTANZ will be again guest at Subway To Sally's "Eisheiliger Nacht" in Bielefeld (GER) and Bremen (GER) around x-mas... (>>> dates)

Attention, dear users of i-phone (or iPod touch or iPad):
Now the EMIL BULLS have their own smartphone-application. Using this you will be always up to date regarding your favourite band, even when you are on the way...

Autum is going to be „Heilig“ (holy) and the seven musicians of LETZTE INSTANZ will take care of this. After the successful album „Schuldig“ and the great "Unschuldstour" last year the brute romantics around singer Holly will go on "holy" tour. 12 exclusive shows in Germany and a little trip to the beautiful Vienna are already planned.

They will present of course mainly the material from their upcoming album „Heilig“ (Dragnet/Columbia), thesecond part of the great Instanz trilogy. The tickets for all concerts of this tour are available on March 19th, 2010 (12.00 pm). The great final of the tour and the Instanz year 2010 will be celebrated again, quite a tradition now, in Hannover. Not only a pure Instanz show but also a lot of guests. For this final event the band offers a special early bird rebate until April 30th, 2010: you can save 5,00 EUR per ticket.

Autumn is going to be „Heilig“ - because „Schuldig“ was just the beginning! (>>> dates)

On the one hand JESUS ON EXTASY are confirmed among others for another festival (>>> dates), on the other hand, and tht should be more interesting for you, in a not so distant future e-Wave Records will release the third JoE album...

"We have good and bad news for you.
First the bad ones: It now appears that Kerstin Bischof unfortunately can´t be the permanent new singer of Xandria. Due to occupational and private reasons she wants to concentrate on her non-musical career in the future and cannot support Xandria the way it would be necessary. We wish her all the best for the future!

So here and now we are searching for a new singer again, details for applications follow in a few days.

We know that you are waiting for a new album, and we are very sorry for keeping you waiting even longer for the new songs, with which we actually wanted to enter the recording studio now.

The good news is that we will play the coming concerts nevertheless, cause our old singer Lisa Middelhauve has agreed to step in for them. But she will not enter the band again, so this will be an unexpected last opportunity for many fans to experience her on stage with Xandria once more!

Tomorrow Holly and Benni together with Benni's Landüber mate Karl start their next Landlese tour. This time Holly reads out not "Weiße Geschichten" but extracts from his latest book "Das weiße Buch des Jadefalken". First stop is the Moritzbastei in Leipzig (GER)... (>>> dates)

The ForumKinos (cinemas) in Munich will host an exclusive premiere party on the releaseday of EMIL BULLS' DVD "The Feast", not to forget including the exclusive screening of the DVD on a 25m screen - rock'n'roll... After a few technical problems the pre-sales will now start this Tuesday, February 02nd, 2010 for the very limited tickets... so make sure you get yours...

SILVERLANE are quite busy right now with their follow-up to "My Inner Demon". The pre-production is almost done and then it should not take much more time until you can hold the new album in your hands...

As mentioned before soon the EMIL BULLS will hit you in the nose - in a visual way. The upcoming live-DVD will be entitled "The Feast" and available on April 23rd, 2010. Here or in their multimedia-area you may have a look on a teaser...

From now on GRANTIG singer and guitarist Jonathan Schmid is only addicted to his guitar and steps back from his position behind the mic for his brother Vinzenz Schmid. So GRANTIG are a five man army now and on the road with the new line-up in February. Together with Tieflader and Übergas they tour across Germany. They are already working on a continuation later this year... (>>> dates-area)